| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
87.61 |
1.0201 |
0.2064 |
172 |
1 |
87.61 |
2011-01-14 |
| 2. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
86.68 |
1.0917 |
0.1218 |
243 |
3 |
85.16 |
2011-01-14 |
| 3. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
86.63 |
1.0429 |
0.1699 |
259 |
1 |
86.63 |
2011-01-14 |
| 4. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
85.99 |
1.0515 |
0.1523 |
250 |
1 |
85.99 |
2011-01-14 |
| 5. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
85.04 |
1.0263 |
0.1642 |
267 |
1 |
85.04 |
2011-01-14 |
| 6. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
82.79 |
1.0795 |
0.0795 |
226 |
1 |
82.79 |
2011-01-14 |
| 7. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
82.59 |
1.0565 |
0.0997 |
247 |
1 |
82.59 |
2011-01-14 |
| 8. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
82.39 |
1.0288 |
0.1246 |
300 |
1 |
82.39 |
2011-01-14 |
| 9. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
81.01 |
1.0577 |
0.0764 |
247 |
1 |
81.01 |
2011-01-14 |
| 10. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
80.67 |
1.0768 |
0.0525 |
295 |
2 |
77.04 |
2011-01-14 |
| 11. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
80.46 |
1.0444 |
0.0820 |
197 |
1 |
80.46 |
2011-01-14 |
| 12. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
80.12 |
1.0516 |
0.0700 |
281 |
1 |
80.12 |
2011-01-14 |
| 13. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
79.74 |
1.0714 |
0.0449 |
129 |
1 |
79.74 |
2011-01-14 |
| 14. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
79.62 |
0.9500 |
0.1646 |
362 |
1 |
79.62 |
2011-01-14 |
| 15. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
79.59 |
0.9540 |
0.1602 |
285 |
1 |
79.59 |
2011-01-14 |
| 16. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
79.44 |
1.0454 |
0.0667 |
255 |
1 |
79.44 |
2011-01-14 |
| 17. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
79.11 |
0.9768 |
0.1307 |
387 |
1 |
79.11 |
2011-01-14 |
| 18. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
78.90 |
1.0132 |
0.0914 |
143 |
1 |
78.90 |
2011-01-14 |
| 19. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
78.81 |
1.0292 |
0.0741 |
262 |
2 |
78.20 |
2011-01-14 |
| 20. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
78.65 |
0.9893 |
0.1118 |
323 |
1 |
78.65 |
2011-01-14 |
| 21. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
78.50 |
1.0029 |
0.0961 |
209 |
1 |
78.50 |
2011-01-14 |
| 22. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
78.38 |
1.0124 |
0.0849 |
204 |
1 |
78.38 |
2011-01-14 |
| 23. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
78.35 |
1.0368 |
0.0601 |
276 |
1 |
78.35 |
2011-01-14 |
| 24. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
78.13 |
1.0389 |
0.0549 |
340 |
1 |
78.13 |
2011-01-14 |
| 25. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
78.01 |
1.0218 |
0.0703 |
268 |
1 |
78.01 |
2011-01-14 |
| 26. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
77.61 |
1.1068 |
-0.0203 |
393 |
1 |
77.61 |
2011-01-14 |
| 27. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
77.37 |
1.0214 |
0.0618 |
269 |
1 |
77.37 |
2011-01-14 |
| 28. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
77.27 |
1.0441 |
0.0377 |
252 |
2 |
75.67 |
2011-01-14 |
| 29. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
77.12 |
1.0477 |
0.0320 |
360 |
1 |
77.12 |
2011-01-14 |
| 30. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
76.64 |
1.0515 |
0.0214 |
166 |
1 |
76.64 |
2011-01-14 |
| 31. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
76.37 |
1.0463 |
0.0229 |
182 |
1 |
76.37 |
2011-01-14 |
| 32. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
76.24 |
1.0788 |
-0.0115 |
171 |
1 |
76.24 |
2011-01-14 |
| 33. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
75.95 |
1.0993 |
-0.0360 |
265 |
1 |
75.95 |
2011-01-14 |
| 34. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
75.82 |
1.1296 |
-0.0681 |
252 |
1 |
75.82 |
2011-01-14 |
| 35. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
75.51 |
1.0016 |
0.0555 |
218 |
1 |
75.51 |
2011-01-14 |
| 36. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
75.44 |
1.0320 |
0.0241 |
293 |
1 |
75.44 |
2011-01-14 |
| 37. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
75.37 |
1.0534 |
0.0018 |
357 |
1 |
75.37 |
2011-01-14 |
| 38. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
74.88 |
0.9851 |
0.0632 |
317 |
1 |
74.88 |
2011-01-14 |
| 39. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
74.76 |
0.9710 |
0.0756 |
173 |
1 |
74.76 |
2011-01-14 |
| 40. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
74.74 |
1.0829 |
-0.0366 |
288 |
1 |
74.74 |
2011-01-14 |
| 41. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
74.68 |
0.9429 |
0.1026 |
287 |
1 |
74.68 |
2011-01-14 |
| 42. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
74.28 |
1.0031 |
0.0368 |
304 |
1 |
74.28 |
2011-01-14 |
| 43. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
74.15 |
1.0485 |
-0.0104 |
153 |
1 |
74.15 |
2011-01-14 |
| 44. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
73.98 |
1.0531 |
-0.0174 |
272 |
1 |
73.98 |
2011-01-14 |
| 45. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
73.72 |
0.9865 |
0.0456 |
276 |
1 |
73.72 |
2011-01-14 |
| 46. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
73.63 |
1.0545 |
-0.0237 |
416 |
2 |
71.55 |
2011-01-14 |
| 47. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
72.52 |
1.0073 |
0.0080 |
369 |
1 |
72.52 |
2011-01-14 |
| 48. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
72.45 |
0.9936 |
0.0207 |
311 |
1 |
72.45 |
2011-01-14 |
| 49. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
72.39 |
1.0083 |
0.0051 |
273 |
1 |
72.39 |
2011-01-14 |
| 50. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
72.28 |
0.9965 |
0.0154 |
310 |
1 |
72.28 |
2011-01-14 |
| 51. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
72.07 |
1.0483 |
-0.0393 |
227 |
1 |
72.07 |
2011-01-14 |
| 52. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
71.85 |
0.9843 |
0.0216 |
234 |
1 |
71.85 |
2011-01-14 |
| 53. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
71.68 |
1.0261 |
-0.0226 |
410 |
1 |
71.68 |
2011-01-14 |
| 54. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
71.17 |
1.0567 |
-0.0603 |
303 |
2 |
70.12 |
2011-01-14 |
| 55. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
70.84 |
1.0033 |
-0.0116 |
189 |
1 |
70.84 |
2011-01-14 |
| 56. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
70.70 |
0.9675 |
0.0223 |
383 |
1 |
70.70 |
2011-01-14 |
| 57. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
70.68 |
1.0154 |
-0.0259 |
351 |
1 |
70.68 |
2011-01-14 |
| 58. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
70.60 |
0.9905 |
-0.0021 |
377 |
1 |
70.60 |
2011-01-14 |
| 59. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
70.53 |
0.9884 |
-0.0010 |
233 |
1 |
70.53 |
2011-01-14 |
| 60. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
70.25 |
1.0252 |
-0.0417 |
176 |
1 |
70.25 |
2011-01-14 |
| 61. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
69.75 |
1.0389 |
-0.0624 |
318 |
1 |
69.75 |
2011-01-14 |
| 62. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
69.71 |
0.8996 |
0.0763 |
192 |
1 |
69.71 |
2011-01-14 |
| 63. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
69.46 |
0.9176 |
0.0548 |
365 |
1 |
69.46 |
2011-01-14 |
| 64. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
69.40 |
0.9965 |
-0.0249 |
168 |
2 |
64.99 |
2011-01-14 |
| 65. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
69.33 |
0.9567 |
0.0139 |
184 |
1 |
69.33 |
2011-01-14 |
| 66. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
69.18 |
0.9398 |
0.0287 |
419 |
1 |
69.18 |
2011-01-14 |
| 67. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
69.14 |
0.8947 |
0.0732 |
366 |
1 |
69.14 |
2011-01-14 |
| 68. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
68.95 |
0.9088 |
0.0565 |
348 |
1 |
68.95 |
2011-01-14 |
| 69. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
68.93 |
1.0399 |
-0.0749 |
294 |
1 |
68.93 |
2011-01-14 |
| 70. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
68.71 |
0.9820 |
-0.0201 |
267 |
1 |
68.71 |
2011-01-14 |
| 71. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
68.51 |
1.0117 |
-0.0526 |
297 |
1 |
68.51 |
2011-01-14 |
| 72. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
68.38 |
0.9904 |
-0.0331 |
203 |
1 |
68.38 |
2011-01-14 |
| 73. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
68.24 |
0.9925 |
-0.0372 |
247 |
1 |
68.24 |
2011-01-14 |
| 74. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
68.24 |
0.9678 |
-0.0125 |
445 |
1 |
68.24 |
2011-01-14 |
| 75. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
68.22 |
0.8520 |
0.1031 |
202 |
1 |
68.22 |
2011-01-14 |
| 76. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
68.01 |
1.0740 |
-0.1219 |
264 |
1 |
68.01 |
2011-01-14 |
| 77. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
67.84 |
0.9668 |
-0.0171 |
383 |
1 |
67.84 |
2011-01-14 |
| 78. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
67.21 |
0.9699 |
-0.0290 |
269 |
1 |
67.21 |
2011-01-14 |
| 79. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
67.14 |
0.9941 |
-0.0542 |
217 |
1 |
67.14 |
2011-01-14 |
| 80. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
67.11 |
1.0023 |
-0.0628 |
211 |
1 |
67.11 |
2011-01-14 |
| 81. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
66.96 |
0.9632 |
-0.0258 |
392 |
1 |
66.96 |
2011-01-14 |
| 82. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
66.83 |
0.9546 |
-0.0190 |
198 |
1 |
66.83 |
2011-01-14 |
| 83. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
66.81 |
0.9871 |
-0.0518 |
209 |
1 |
66.81 |
2011-01-14 |
| 84. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
66.71 |
0.9681 |
-0.0342 |
378 |
1 |
66.71 |
2011-01-14 |
| 85. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
66.67 |
0.9439 |
-0.0105 |
476 |
1 |
66.67 |
2011-01-14 |
| 86. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
66.57 |
0.9289 |
0.0031 |
204 |
1 |
66.57 |
2011-01-14 |
| 87. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
66.27 |
0.9202 |
0.0076 |
254 |
2 |
66.00 |
2011-01-14 |
| 88. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
65.97 |
1.0240 |
-0.1004 |
256 |
1 |
65.97 |
2011-01-14 |
| 89. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
65.90 |
0.9936 |
-0.0710 |
227 |
1 |
65.90 |
2011-01-14 |
| 90. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
65.31 |
0.9687 |
-0.0544 |
371 |
1 |
65.31 |
2011-01-14 |
| 91. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
65.12 |
0.9966 |
-0.0849 |
259 |
1 |
65.12 |
2011-01-14 |
| 92. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
64.99 |
0.9084 |
0.0014 |
404 |
1 |
64.99 |
2011-01-14 |
| 93. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
64.36 |
0.9622 |
-0.0612 |
392 |
1 |
64.36 |
2011-01-14 |
| 94. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
63.87 |
0.8595 |
0.0347 |
242 |
1 |
63.87 |
2011-01-14 |
| 95. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
63.53 |
1.0725 |
-0.1831 |
233 |
1 |
63.53 |
2011-01-14 |
| 96. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
63.40 |
0.8670 |
0.0206 |
318 |
1 |
63.40 |
2011-01-14 |
| 97. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
63.23 |
0.9698 |
-0.0846 |
397 |
1 |
63.23 |
2011-01-14 |
| 98. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
62.91 |
1.0232 |
-0.1425 |
236 |
1 |
62.91 |
2011-01-14 |
| 99. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
62.38 |
0.8775 |
-0.0042 |
443 |
2 |
59.21 |
2011-01-14 |
| 100. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
61.87 |
0.9570 |
-0.0908 |
287 |
1 |
61.87 |
2011-01-14 |
| 101. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
61.18 |
0.9635 |
-0.1070 |
389 |
1 |
61.18 |
2011-01-14 |
| 102. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
60.50 |
0.8553 |
-0.0083 |
174 |
1 |
60.50 |
2011-01-14 |
| 103. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
59.65 |
0.9946 |
-0.1595 |
246 |
1 |
59.65 |
2011-01-14 |
| 104. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
57.85 |
1.0060 |
-0.1961 |
171 |
1 |
57.85 |
2011-01-14 |
| 105. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
57.59 |
1.0232 |
-0.2170 |
350 |
1 |
57.59 |
2011-01-14 |
| 106. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
57.27 |
0.9559 |
-0.1541 |
195 |
1 |
57.27 |
2011-01-14 |
| 107. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
57.26 |
0.8467 |
-0.0451 |
343 |
1 |
57.26 |
2011-01-14 |
| 108. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
56.27 |
0.9792 |
-0.1914 |
265 |
1 |
56.27 |
2011-01-14 |
| 109. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
55.60 |
0.9665 |
-0.1881 |
326 |
1 |
55.60 |
2011-01-14 |
| 110. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
50.32 |
0.8770 |
-0.1725 |
300 |
1 |
50.32 |
2011-01-14 |